“IF I’VE LOST AARON, I’VE LOST MIDDLE AMERICA”….Even mild-mannered Aaron Brown is disgusted at the partisan hackery so obvious in Dennis Hastert’s decision to prevent the 9/11 commission from doing its job:
We admit we don’t do causes very well on the program. And I don’t do outrage well at all, yet, tonight, a cause and an outrage. The decision by the speaker of the House to deny the independent commission investigating the 9/11 attack on America a 60-day extension — that’s all, 60 days — to complete its work is unconscionable and indefensible, which, no doubt, explains why neither the speaker, nor any member of the House leadership, nor none of their press secretaries would come on the program to talk about it, despite repeated requests.
The commission itself has gone about its work quietly. It’s had to fight tooth and nail to get necessary information. And now this, an arbitrary decision to deny not just the commission — that’s the least of it — but the country the chance to know all of what happened, how it happened, and how best to prevent it from happening again.
Perhaps, the speaker and his team assume you do not care. I hope they’re wrong. I hope you care enough to write them and e-mail them and call them until they relent. Do that. Do it for the victims and their families. Do it for the country that was attacked and for history.
Hastert may have made a serious mistake if even Aaron Brown is blowing a stack over this. Is this yet another panicky miscalculation from the same Republican establishment that seemed almost invincible only a year ago? Ever since the carrier landing backfired on them they just can’t seem to find their footing.
UPDATE: Sorry, I realize my headline for this post may have been a little too cute. Reference here.
